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Exhumation where father’s coercive control undermined decision on place of burial

Exhumation where father’s coercive control undermined decision on place of burial

by Guest Post | Apr 15, 2025 | Cases, Explanation

This is a guest post by Frank Cranmer, reposted from the Law & Religion UK blog, about a matter of ecclesiastical law which overlaps with family law. It concerns the grant of a faculty, which is an order granted by the Consistory Court for a particular Church of...
The Intermediaries Appeal – what does it tell us?

The Intermediaries Appeal – what does it tell us?

by Malvika Jaganmohan | Apr 12, 2025 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation

An appeal judgment has just landed in our inboxes on the correct approach to the use of intermediaries in care proceedings: Re M (A Child: Intermediaries) [2025] EWCA Civ 440. We wrote a post a couple of weeks ago when we became aware that this appeal was in the...
Transparency Orders – but can a parent tell their own story?

Transparency Orders – but can a parent tell their own story?

by reporting watch team | Apr 10, 2025 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Open Reporting, Transparency News

Since January the transparency order is ‘a thing’, in that courts will usually make one in every case where a reporter attends a hearing. Such orders allow the anonymised reporting of a hearing or a case by the media. But what about the parents? Does it...
SECTION 12 – YET MORE CONFUSION

SECTION 12 – YET MORE CONFUSION

by Lucy Reed | Apr 10, 2025 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Open Reporting, Transparency News

This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, former President of the Family Division. On 2 April 2025 Harris J handed down her reserved judgment in M v F and C [2025] EWHC 801 (Fam). The case had first come to public attention when the hearing on 20 February 2025 was...
Access to Family Court documents under the open justice principle

Access to Family Court documents under the open justice principle

by Julie Doughty | Mar 24, 2025 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

UPDATE – 2nd July 2025 – see bottom of this post Journalists and legal bloggers (reporters) are normally allowed to see certain types of documents under the Reporting Provisions that came in this year, and earlier during the Reporting Pilot. Sometimes...
Re XY Twins – another family court judgment names an individual to warn parents

Re XY Twins – another family court judgment names an individual to warn parents

by Julie Doughty | Feb 17, 2025 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Last week,  we wrote on a family court judgment about children that had been published on TNA and BAILII naming an individual party, which we said almost never happened. That’s because of the strict privacy and anonymity rules intended to protect children who are...
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